New Screenshots of Sandbox with resized Textures

Screenshots of Sandbox

Images of Laboratory Model in Sketchup

( I had to change the textures so that they were the same all over because only one area of the model uploaded to Sandbox when I used these different ones)

The Black Box

These are the images from the slide I chose from the Black Box slide show as I am very interested in the shadows these shapes have created.


These images are from slide 50/81 (from Lecture_07_TheBlackBox_2010.pdf) in the section called Shadow as a Refuge, which is Erika Kruger's Project 3 of The Black Box slide show.


I made this animation in Sketchup to see for myself what kinds of shadows would be possible when limited to 90 degree angles and only 9 boxes. This was the most interesting shadow sequence I found.
I am very interested in the way shadows are cast from my model, and the differences in these shadows at different times of the day. I also tested what the shadows looked like at different times of the year, and this was interesting as the shadows changed shape slightly and changed length. The shadows my object is casting obviously are not as interesting as the ones cast by the objects in the images above as I can only work with 9 boxes. It is also interesting the way the shadows in the Black Box images were cast when there were 2 different surfaces (eg. wall and floor) and I will try to get this affect by changing the height and shape of the ground plane in Sandbox when I export my Sketchup model.

Isometric Drawings with 9 Boxes

This is the drawing I have chosen to build in Sketchup and export to Sandbox.

First Axonometric in Sandbox

This is the axonometric I based this Sketchup model on for Sandbox.

Quotes from Clients

Stephen Hawking: "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
John Boslough, "Ch. 7: The Final Question," in Stephen Hawking's Universe (1985), 77.

Nicole Kuepper: "Everyone in the solar energy world is trying to think of ways to make the solar cells cheaper and easier to make... and so we started thinking about simple processes that we could use like low temperature firing conditions, ink-jet printers because they are very simple and easy to understand, and we came up basically with this new way of making solar cells that is cheap, low tech, low temperature and able to be done in some of the least developed countries of the world. We hope."
Peter Trute, "Solar Star: Nicole Kuepper", UNSW Media Youtube video, added September 1st 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8eNeReo-hw (accessed 15th April 2010).

Charles Darwin: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have decidedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
Webmaster, "The Complete Works of Charles-Darwin", http://www.darwin-literature.com/l_quotes.html (accessed 15th April 2010).

9 Axonometrics (front and back)

Animations

This animation shows some of the spaces on the inside of the Sketchup Model.

This animation shows the outside of the Sketchup model by orbiting around it.

This is my section animation.

Week 4: Developed Sketchup Model

This is Ricky Swallow's studio space above ground.

These are the stairs leading to the gallery space from Ricky Swallow's studio space. The balustrades are the same colour and style as the windows in Swallow's proposed studio space which I think links the space well to the gallery area.

This is Richard Goodwin's studio space which is located below ground. The balustrades for the stairs are of a similar style to the ones in Ricky Swallow's space. The colour of the glass was deliberately chosen to compliment the colour of the green bottle glass used in Goodwin's artwork 'Waterjacket' which is located in the middle of the room.

In this view the lower space for Goodwin can be seen. This area has a considerably lower ceiling than the main studio space, as my intention for this area was for storage of materials (as Goodwin works with a range of materials (such as cloth, metal and concrete) which would need a storage area. Goodwin could also use this area for welding.

This is the studio space for Ricky Swallow. The glass windows surrounding the room makes it feel more spacious, and the ceiling gradually getting higher rather than being flat helps with this also. The stairs then lead down to another room which could be used for storage or more studio space, but there aren't as many windows in this area.

This area is the other studio space (for Richard Goodwin) and the stairs I designed are extra wide in order to make it easier to carry the artwork upstairs and the ceiling is 7 metres high so that the artwork fits well. The balustrades are quite low, and they are also not solid glass like the ones above as more space is needed to maneuver the artwork up the stairs.

I added some landscaping to the outside areas of the gallery space to make it a more defined area on the ground level and added the material of grass to create more context for the model. I also made the underground level look more underground and dark as it would be by adding a large box to surround the below ground studio, and I think it works very well.

Another Picture of Something Beautiful

Group Work on Sketchup

Here we are outside the MCA at Circular Quay working on our Sketchup Models together :)

Week 3 Sketchup with Textures and Artworks

This image shows Richard Goodwin's studio space, containing his work "Waterjacket" which is about 5 metres tall. The stairs still need balastrades, but I added the "opaque" texture to them which is an angular design to reflect on the angular design of the stairs I designed for carrying "Waterjacket" up to the gallery space.
This image shows the above ground area, containing Ricky Swallow's studio space with his work "Tusk". The windows around the outside of his studio space are blue glass to make the room bright and feel more open and bigger. I also used my texture on the outside of the lower area of the studio space that represents "fragment". The gallery area (which still needs work) has a "fibrous" texture which I chose in order to differentiate it from normal ground texture like concrete or even grass which will make the gallery space more obviously distinguished between other ground level areas.

My 3 Textures for Sketchup Model

The words that correspond with these images were opaque, fibrous, fragment.